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Citations: author/date and line breaking


From: Pont Lurcock
Subject: Citations: author/date and line breaking
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:00:48 +1200 (NZST)

Hi all,

I'm trying to use Lout for my MSc thesis, but I'm running into some
trouble with citations.

The first problem is that I have to use the Harvard (author-date) citation
style -- along the lines of "blah blah blah (Smith, 1999) blah". As far as
I can tell, Lout can't manage this -- I see no way to split off an
author's surname from the database entry.

I'm planning to work around this by keeping my canonical reference list in
BibTeX format and writing a script to convert it to a Lout database,
putting the desired citation format into some unused option for @Reference
(@Annote, say). Then I can just set @RefCiteLabels to @Annote and it will
work. If anyone has better ideas, I'd be glad to hear them.

(This problem was previously discussed in the thread
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=fa.ekauoev.bg4qod%40ifi.uio.no ,
and I'm more or less using Uwe's suggested workaround.)

The second problem is the fact that lines don't get broken within @Cite
objects. This presumably isn't very noticeable with citations of the form
"[7]", but if "(Mulholland-Jjones and Svidrigailov, 2002)" can't be broken
across a line things could start looking pretty ugly.  This problem was
already mentioned last year at
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=fa.bjetf4h.1r1s8gd%40ifi.uio.no ;
after reading it, I was able to make @Cite breakable by removing the `tag
@CrossLink' from @RefCiteLabels in the definition of @CiteLabel in dsf,
but I'm a little worried that this may unexpectedly mess something else
up, since I don't really know what I'm doing here. Does anyone know of a
better way to get around this problem?

(Apologies if this ends up double-posted: I tried to send it from another
email address yesterday, but my first attempt doesn't seem to have made it
to the list.)

Cheers,

Pont



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